Ulrike's Brain
5.0
Referencing sixties B-movies like THEY SAVED HITLER’S BRAIN and THE BRAIN THAT WOULD NOT DIE, ULRIKE’S BRAIN finds Doctor Julia Feifer (Susanne Sachsse) arriving at an academic conference with an organ box. Inside the box: the brain of Ulrike Meinhof, which was saved by the authorities along with the brains of the three other leaders of the RAF after their deaths in Stammheim prison. Doctor Feifer can communicate telepathically with Ulrike’s brain, which is directing her to lead a new feminist revolution. To that end, she is searching for the ideal female body to transplant Ulrike’s brain into. At the same time, her arch-rival, Detlev Schlesinger, an extreme right-wing ideologue, arrives at the conference with the ashes of Michael Kühnen, the former German neo-Nazi leader and infamous homosexual who died of AIDS in 1989. When the two Frankenstein’s monsters of the extreme left and the extreme right meet, chaos ensues.
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Cast
14 people
Gertrud Stammheim
Susanne Sachße
Doctor Julia Feifer
Known for
Otto; or, Up with Dead People
Bruce LaBruce
Also in
Hustler White
No Skin Off My Ass
Paula Alamillo
Jonathan B. Johnson
Jürgen Brüning
Also in
Nekromantik
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Jonathan B Johnson
Hannah Hurtzig
Stefan Sandrock
Also in
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Florian Töbe
Sonja Klümper
Bruce LaBruce Director
Budget $202M · First release February 11, 2017 · Produced in Canada, Germany
Box office
Budget
$201,767,000
Production
Jürgen Brüning Filmproduktion
Production
Amard Bird Films
Production
Canada · Germany
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · German
Release dates
Germany · February 11, 2017
Theatrical · Berlin International Film Festival
No release date listed for United States.
Colombia
November 20, 2017 · Kuir Bogotá International Film & Art Queer Festival
Italy
May 31, 2017 · Sicilia Queer FilmFest
Mexico
March 12, 2017 · Guadalajara International Film Festival
Portugal
September 17, 2017 · Queer Lisboa
Russia
July 14, 2017 · Moscow
Spain
October 11, 2017 · Sitges Film Festival
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